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HERO. Her design was most 
drastically changed. Peter 
Milligan (writer) wanted 
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not so model thin. She’s 
got to believably kick a lot 
Of dss, so Leandro (artist) 
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athletic. Beautiful and 
strong. 


PHILIP WALKER - Katya’s 
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Softer in the final version. 


ADAM STOKER - Our Lex 
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he’s much more corporate 
than this sketch leads you to 
believe. 


THE SURGEON - the mad 
dog of the piece. Ruthless 
killer. His features are even 
more exaggerated in the 
final...stretched face, thinner, 
gaunt, nasty. 


DARK LOOPS - | don’t 
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just let you imagine what 
these might be all about... 
Buy the book and find out! 


VARIANT COVER ISSUE #1 
=1 loved the starkness of this 
image. Leandro sent in a lot 
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the white background), but 
|thought this cool blue one 
was the best. Seems to fit 
the cold-bloodedness of the 
Wall St. world and our villain, 
The Surgeon. 


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MAGENTA [BLACK 


HE NAMES has been 
called KILL BILL meets 
WALL STREET. 


Well, it’s true, the story’s about a 
really strong female protagonist 
named Katya Walker who wreaks 
revenge against a formidable 
opponent -- in this case The 
Names, a shadowy cabal who 
control much of the world’s 
finance and are responsible for 
the death of Katya’s husband. 
When we meet her, Katya already 
knows how to fight; she must 
very quickly learn how to kill. 


HANK KAWALZ Senior VP-Vertign & Integrated Publishing © DIAME NELSON President » DAN OIDIO and 
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Maybe that’s what | intended this 
book to be. Wall Street. Revenge. 
Bloodletting. But sometimes a 
kind of magic happens, a kind 
of alchemy where a book and 
the characters in it come alive 
and surprise you. So, in addition 
to the death and destruction 
(and there’s a lot of that), the 
relationship between Katya and 
Philip -- Katya’s late husband’s 
uber-bright but strange son -- 
develops in a totally unexpected 
way. And the personality of 
the psychopath who’s_ after 
them -- The Surgeon -- is really 
surprising (and scaring) me, 
along with his highly dangerous 
“League of Psychopaths.” 


Thrown into this already complex 
brew are The Dark Loops: bizarre, 
inhuman creations who are 
even more dangerous than The 
Surgeon and his friends. 


So, what might have been a 
fairly generic revenge story 
set in the world of money has 


in this issue, the distinctive li 


become something oddly sexy, 
violent, moving, and weird. Now 
that’s something you can’t say 
of your average story about the 
financial sector. 


| hope the way I’ve written this 
piece reveals how much | love 
this book and the characters 
in it. And what turns that love 
into a full-blown obsession is 
the incredible art of Leandro 
Fernandez. Leandro has done 
some great work before, but | 
believe this is a new level for 
him, and it helps make THE 
NAMES what | think and hope is 
one of the best series | have ever 
created for Vertigo. 


Rec Win on 


- Peter Milligan, Writer 


THE NAMES #1 


By Peter Milligan and 
Leandro Fernandez 


Cover by Celia Calle 
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